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That house is in the same development as my brother in law. Passed it many times. Very sad for that boy.

Dang
Being originally from CM I know it well from when it was all woods and farmland

How could anyone do that??? I wouldn't do that to my dog let alone an 8 year old. Her sentence isn't tough enough!!
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Crazy isnt it?

Crazy isnt it?

No words for what happened to that little boy. So sad. I hope he is with God now.

[HEADING=2]Exclusive: U.S. says drone shot down by Russian air defenses near Libyan capital[/HEADING]

Just Breaking:

[HEADING=2]Russian fighter jet forces down US drone over Black Sea after intercept[/HEADING]

A Russian fighter jet forced down a US Air Force drone over the Black Sea on Tuesday after damaging the propeller of the American MQ-9 Reaper drone, according to a US official familiar with the incident.

The Reaper drone and two SU-27 Flanker jets were operating over international waters over the Black Sea when one of the Russian jets intentionally flew in front of and dumped fuel in front of the unmanned drone, according to the official. One of the jets then damaged the propeller of the Reaper, which is mounted on the rear of the drone, the official said. The damage to the propeller forced the US to bring down the Reaper in international waters in the Black Sea.

Russian and US aircraft have operated over the Black Sea during the course of the war, but this is the first known such interaction, a potentially dangerous escalation at a critical time in the fighting.

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looks like it was intentional to down that drone intact… pilots are gonna be detained for not accomplishing a mission… cellfish…
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looks like it was intentional to down that drone intact… pilots are gonna be detained for not accomplishing a mission… cellfish…
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not sure why thedy'd want it intact - it's n iot like it's cutting edge drone - it's beden in service for 20 years - I'm sure they already know it's capabilities

Heard a report yesterday that before the drone hit the water - its operatore had already wiped its systems clean of any sensitive data.

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U.S. European Command has released [dramatic declassified video]('

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Communications were lost with the drone as the image can be seen pixelating into color bars.

EUCOM also confirmed that communications with the drone were down for a minute and that the released video was edited for time.

When the video feed resumed one of the propeller blades can be seen damaged from the collision with the Russian fighter.

[heart breaking read]('https://www.yahoo.com/news/wife-dying-10-feet-snow-115218229.html')

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The Russians think the Black Sea is their own. This is not the first time the US has been harassed in (or above) the Black Sea.

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The Russians think the Black Sea is their own. This is not the first time the US has been harassed in (or above) the Black Sea.

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Felt like I was watching an episode of Whale Wars...

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Well this was predictable...

[HEADING=2][SIZE=7]Russia to award pilots involved in U.S. drone incident[/SIZE][/HEADING]
[pressherald.com/2023/03/17/russia-to-award-pilots-involved-in-u-s-drone-incident/]('https://www.pressherald.com/2023/03/17/russia-to-award-pilots-involved-in-u-s-drone-incident/')

Associated Press March 17, 2023

MOSCOW — Russian fighter pilots involved in [an incident with a U.S. drone]('https://www.pressherald.com/2023/03/16/u-s-releases-video-of-russian-jet-dumping-fuel-on-its-drone/') that resulted in its crash will be given state awards, the Defense Ministry announced Friday. The move appears to signal Moscow’s intention to adopt a more aggressive stance toward future U.S. surveillance flights.

The U.S. military said it ditched the Air Force MQ-9 Reaper in the Black Sea on Tuesday after a pair of Russian fighter jets dumped fuel on the surveillance drone and then one of them struck its propeller while it was flying in international airspace. Moscow has denied that its warplanes hit the drone, alleging that it crashed while making a sharp maneuver. It said that its warplanes reacted to a violation of a no-flight zone Russia has established in the area near Crimea amid the fighting in Ukraine.

On Friday, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu lauded the pilots for preventing the drone from flying into the area that Moscow has banned for flights. The Defense Ministry said the ban was “in line with international norms.”

Moscow’s announcement comes a day after the U.S. military released a declassified 42-second color footage showing a Russian Su-27 fighter jet approaching the back of the U.S. drone and releasing fuel as it passes in what appeared to be aimed at blinding the drone’s optical instruments to drive it from the area.

On a second approach, either the same jet or another Russian Su-27 that had been shadowing the MQ-9 struck the drone’s propeller, damaging a blade, according to the U.S. military, which said it then ditched the aircraft in the sea. The video excerpt does not show the collision, although it does show the damage to the propeller.

The top U.S. and Russian defense and military leaders spoke Wednesday about the destruction of the drone, underscoring the event’s seriousness. The calls between U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Gen. Valery Gerasimov, chief of Russian General Staff, were the first since October.

While calling out Russia for “reckless” action, the White House also tried to avoid exacerbating tensions. U.S. officials emphasized that they have not been able to determine whether the Russian pilot intentionally struck the American drone and stressed that lines of communication with Moscow remain open.

Russian officials also emphasized the need to maintain lines of communication, but they harshly denounced the U.S. action as arrogant disregard of Moscow’s no-flight zone.

“This is a clear sign that Russia will keep downing the American drones,” pro-Kremlin political analyst Sergei Markov wrote in a commentary on the award announcement. “This decision will receive a strong support from the Russian society that wants the government to toughen its policy.”

Moscow has repeatedly voiced concern about U.S. intelligence flights close to Crimea, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014 amid strong international condemnation. The Kremlin has charged the U.S. and its allies of effectively becoming engaged in the conflict by providing weapons and sharing intelligence with Kyiv.

Some Russian officials charged that the U.S. surveillance flights helped gather intelligence that allowed Ukraine to strike Russian targets.

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[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-signals-more-ukrainian-children-145242546.html[/URL]

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[HEADING=2]Russia Signals It Will Take More Ukrainian Children, a Crime in Progress[/HEADING]

KYIV, Ukraine — Russia’s abduction and deportation of Ukraine’s children since its invasion of the country was so well-documented and terrifying that when Russian forces prepared to withdraw from the southern city of Kherson last fall, doctors at a hospital there hurriedly hid babies and falsified their records.

When Russian soldiers arrived, the staff at Kherson Regional Hospital said the infants were too critically ill to move, Olha Pilyarska, head of its neonatal anesthesiology department, recalled in an interview Saturday.

“They put lung ventilation devices near all the children,” she said.

The efforts saved 14 babies from being swept up in a campaign that has systematically transferred thousands of Ukrainian children to Russia to be resettled in foster families and put on track to become Russian citizens. When the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin of Russia on Friday over the forcible deportation of children, it was a powerful recognition of actions that have not only been carried out in full public view, but continue today.

Russian authorities, far from disguising the deportations, have put the children on display in Red Square photo-ops and at lavish concerts celebrating the war. They have also signaled that more deportations are on the way.

Forcibly transferring children from one national group to another with the intention to destroy the group can also amount to genocide, a charge that Kateryna Rashevska, a lawyer at the Regional Center for Human Rights, a Ukrainian organization that investigates the abduction of children, said she hoped would be the next step.

“They committed the crime in plain sight and expressed pride in doing it,” Stephen Rapp, a former ambassador-at-large who headed the Office of Global Criminal Justice in the State Department, said in an email.

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[HEADING=2]Boaters urged to use caution after mother right whale, calf spotted in Cape Cod Bay[/HEADING]

By Frank O'Laughlin, Boston 25 News StaffMarch 20, 2023 at 11:02 am EDT
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PROVINCETOWN, Mass. — A mother and her calf became the first North Atlantic right whales of the season to arrive in the waters off Cape Cod over the weekend.
Porcia, a 21-year-old right whale, and her newborn calf were spotted in Cape Cod Bay on March 18, according to the Center for Coastal Studies. They were previously seen off the coast of Georgia in late December.
The North Atlantic right whale is critically endangered, with an estimated 340 animals remaining, and protected under the federal Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

That designation legally prohibits boats and aircraft from approaching within 500 yards of right whales. It also restricts vessel speeds in designated areas, including Cape Cod waters.

Typically, mother and calf pairs make the long trip from their calving grounds off the coast of Georgia and Florida and arrive in Cape Cod Bay in mid-March. Mother and calf pairs often linger in Cape Cod and Massachusetts bays, where they feed and rest, before continuing their migration north.
The Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries places a seasonal 10-knot speed restriction in Cape Cod Bay for vessels less than 65 feet in length. That speed restriction is in place from March 1 through April 30 and can be extended if whales remain in the area.

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At approximately midnight on March 23, 2023, The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a threat of violence at a local middle school; the matter has been investigated and an arrest of a juvenile student of the school was affected at approximately 3 am. Based on the age of the defendant they were referred to Family Court. The PCSO Bureau of Criminal Investigation continues to investigate this matter, and we have deployed additional personnel to the school for the day and reached out to a number of law enforcement agencies providing information, as well as the Department of Social Services.

There is no danger or remaining threat to the safety of students and faculty at the school. In addition, patrol deputies will be present at schools throughout Putnam County during the day.

In this case we are providing the identity of the school due to the recent reports that have circulated in the communities, as the George Fischer Middle School (GFMS).

GFMS is on a two (2) hour delay. Putnam County Sheriff’s Deputies will be deployed to the school in addition to the normal complement of School Resource Officers assigned.

We remind the community that we investigate all threats and determine whether an arrest can be made based on the facts. In this matter, it was determined that a crime was committed and therefore an arrest was made swiftly.

There are restrictions on what information we can provide, but we take this opportunity to assure parents, students, and faculty that they are safe.
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Good job. Sad that stuff like this happens but at least in this instance it seems something was prevented.

That Maryland driver should be charged with 6 counts of murder or manslaughter - completely their fault.

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[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.yahoo.com/news/norway-watches-russian-subs-aircraft-214347301.html[/URL]

ABOARD THE KV SORTLAND — [NATO ]('https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/nato-increase-high-readiness-forces-russia-ukraine-war-rcna35450')ally Norway has announced that it is boosting the number of naval patrols near vital undersea gas pipelines off its coast, and released a trove of videos exclusively to NBC News illustrating what it sees as a growing [Russian ]('https://www.nbcnews.com/news/vladimir-putin')threat in the Arctic.

The videos provided by the Royal Norwegian Air Force capture the high-stakes cat-and-mouse game between the two militaries, with Russian attack submarines patrolling near a maze of undersea pipelines carrying vast amounts of natural gas to Europe and telecommunication cables linking Europe and America.

According to the head of the Royal Norwegian Navy, the videos indicate that Russian attack submarines and planes have expanded their presence in the High North, operating near Norway’s natural gas pipelines that represent a vital energy lifeline for Europe.

“We’ve seen increased military activity around Norway in the High North, in the North Atlantic. We have seen Russian submarines operating differently than they did 10 years ago,” Rear Adm. Rune Andersen said last week from the bridge of the Norwegian refueling ship Maud at the Haakonsvern Naval Base in the city of Bergen.

Norway, with more than 5,000 miles of pipelines, is now supplying 30 to 40% of Europe’s natural gas needs, up from about 20% before the Ukraine invasion. The undersea cables in the North Sea are part of a crucial global communications network that keeps data moving around the planet.